Chapter 59: Pierce
At the beginning of the second quarter, Yang Di stayed on the court, and the shooting rate of both sides was still very low and the pace was very slow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In this era, it is the slowest pace of the NBA, O'Neal is in the prime of life in the east and west, Duncan, Big Ben, Chris Webber and other traditional interior lines are in charge, and the NBA still believes in the concept of "those who win the inside line win the world".
The two sides fought for more than 4 minutes, and the sound of "bang, bang, bang" continued.
It wasn't until the advertising timeout that the two sides switched to their respective main lineups, which were the lineups that came out at the end of the first quarter, and the Celtics' Pierce, Mike James and others returned to the court.
"To be honest, Dwyane seems to be a little out of shape in this game." 、
The TV commentator on the broadcast commented on Wade's performance today, mainly comparing it to Wade's excellent performance yesterday, and at the same time, he also talked about Banks, the 13th pick who played with the Celtics today.
"Didn't show the level of immediacy that the Celtics need, compared to the other two rookies of the opposite Heat, Haslem and Young Di, I have to admire the Heat's draft vision. Meanwhile, LeBron James, Darko Milicic and Carmelo Anthony will all be in action today. ”
"03 Rookie year, this year's rookie will have great expectations."
After Pierce came on the court, the Celtics had a core tactic, Mike James gave Paul Pierce in the low post after blocking and dismantling.
Pierce's pace of action has always been slow, and he took the ball with his back to Odom.
Turning his back to the left, holding the ball and turning to walk the baseline, Odom felt the change in Pierce's center of gravity, and he couldn't see his movements, so he could only act later.
I want to take advantage of my height and arm span to make a preemptive attack, but I finally lose the opportunity in action.
Pierce took two steps and stepped out with his right foot, his hands clasped together as if he were about to shoot, and Odom glanced at it, and raised his hand to block it.
But at this moment, Pierce took a big step along the baseline, stepped on the ground with his right foot and burst out of power, held the basketball high with both hands, turned his body, and turned over and made a backward jumper.
Stepping back and leaning back, when Odom caught up with the interference, Pierce had already made a move.
In order not to infringe on the shooting cylinder, the two people are actually quite far apart. It's just that from the audience's point of view, Odom's ball is well defended.
The basketball was accurate into the frame, and the Celtics were still 5 points ahead of the Heat at 25-20.
In addition to the die-hard fans of the two teams in the same period, the individual visitors who watched the game were really sleepy, no dunks, no blocks, and the confrontation was not fierce enough, and the tepid appearance did not seem to be able to arouse people's adrenaline at all.
Wade holds the ball in the front court and finds Odom to come out to block the pick-and-roll.
He accelerated with the ball, one step past the defender, Pierce, who was staring at Odom, could only let go of Odom and switch to Wade, Wade was not stunned in the face of the long-famous Pierce, after stepping out with his right foot, he held the ball with his right hand and followed, and then held the ball and made three steps to the basket, and the two people had a physical contact and confrontation in the air.
The basketball hit the board into the frame, and it turned out to be a ball, which suddenly made the fans slightly excited.
The Celtics attacked, Pierce passed to Mike James, Mike James broke through and forced a layup, missed, the rebound did not bounce far, Yang Di jumped high and grabbed the rebound with one hand.
With a "snap", he clasped his hands together, clamping the basketball as if he had some deep hatred with the basketball.
The fourth rebound, the score is still 0 points, there is a block, the typical blue-collar player stats.
Yang Di handed the ball to Alstom, and then ran across the half, Alston passed to Wade at the top of the arc, Wade hooked his hand at Yang Di, and motioned for Yang Di to come out to block him.
"Me?"
In the general tactical arrangement, Odom or Haslem and Wade, who have a certain mid-range shooting ability, play blocking and dismantling.
Yang Di followed Wade's command and did a block and pick and roll cover on the right side, and Wade took the right side with his block, but the Celtics knew that Yang Di's finishing ability was average, Tony Barty and Kaderick Brown did not change defenses, one grabbed to delay Wade's breakthrough, and the other went around and caught up to put pressure on Wade.
Wade changed his yearning to the left, and Yang Di went down the right side with a sharp heart, forming a cross running position with Wade.
Tony Barty was no longer in a hurry to keep up with the defender Yang Di, Wade jumped up and made a quick stop for a jumper from mid-range, and Kedrick blocked the shooting space, seriously interfered and missed the shot.
"Mine!"
After opening up the space, Yang Di got the space to rush to grab the rebound, and the basketball bounced in his direction, Yang Di was immediately overjoyed, shouted, and jumped up like a big bird.
"Oops!" Tony Barty knew something was wrong when he saw the trajectory of the rebounding ball, looked at Yang Di, who had already jumped up, and unwillingly made a move to pull the jersey.
"Toot ~" foul. The referee pointed at Tony Barty and fouled him for grabbing the rebound.
Yang Di had already grabbed the rebound at this time, and after closing it with a "snap", he grabbed the rebound with one hand, pouted, and returned it to the referee.
"Is this rebound mine?" The Heat were about to send the ball in the frontcourt, and Yang Di secretly pulled Wade and asked.
Wade snorted, and said uncertainly: "It shouldn't be counted, right?" Tony Barty fouled before you could fully control the rebound, which should count as a team rebound. ”
"Fuck, you bastard." Yang Di's heart was congested, and his eyes were particularly unhappy when he looked at Tony Barty.
Serving on the sideline, Odom passes to Wade, Wade passes back to Odom, Odom breaks through on the left side with the ball, and it is Paul Pierce who defends him, who is very strong, and neither of them can help each other.
Then Odom caught a glimpse of a slit out of the corner of his eye, and his left hand shook like an out-of-body soul.
A hidden ground-hitting pass during the run, hitting the ground through two defenders, directly to Yang Di, who was walking in, Yang Di was facing the basket, subconsciously catching the basketball with both hands, and jumped up without thinking about it!
Wen Baker and Tony Barty turned their heads, and Yang Di was already rising vertically like a helicopter.
"Bang!"
He slammed his hands down with such force that it seemed to penetrate the floor.
The basketball hoop shook, and the loud sound was transmitted through the loudspeaker to every corner of the North Shore Garden Arena, and the fans grew their mouths and watched in amazement as the young man from the East completed a powerful slam dunk!
"Good shot!"
Odom and Jandy high-fived, stinking to themselves that the pass was beautiful.
It is indeed beautiful, this kind of pass may not be able to be worn well even by a small organizational defender, but Odom can pass to Yang Di on the other side in a chic manner, with a wide field of vision and exquisite techniques.
24-25, the Heat chased down only one point.
The Celtics called a timeout, and the clock went into the sixth minute of the second quarter.
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Yang Di took a break, he wiped the sweat on his face, and was a little unhappy in his heart, in fact, in terms of physical strength, he didn't consume much just now, at least there was no problem at all to play another half of the game.
"I'm in just the right shape, and I'll be able to grab the frontcourt rebound later."
For rebounding, he is now more persistent, blocks or something are hard to come by, and scoring or something mostly depends on teammates, only frontcourt rebounds or backcourt rebounds, this is the positive data he can strive for, and it is also the only data that can prove himself and let himself stand.
The staff handed him the towel, and after Yang Di finished wiping it, he put on his training jacket and waited quietly for the midfielder.
Wade still didn't feel good, and after Yang Di got off the court, the Heat didn't seem to have much motivation, but Pierce suddenly came to the state, turned around in the low post and hit another jumper, and then scored a three-pointer, scoring 5 points in a row to help the Celtics establish a lead.
The Heat asked for a timeout to curb Pierce's hand.
At halftime, the Celtics led the Heat by 10 points, 49-39. Wade scored just 2 points on 1-of-6 shooting in the first half, while Pierce shot 6-of-10 and scored 18 points in the half, including 12 in the second quarter alone.
Even Wade, who is known by the outside media as the more mature rookie in this year's rookies, still looks very immature in comparison with the famous star Pierce.